Best of Scotland: A Caledonian Miscellany

by John MacLeod

Book Overview

In this imaginative, informative and amusing miscellany, award-winning journalist John MacLeod explores some of the well-known symbols of Scottish culture (as well some of the quirkier ones) and looks beneath the surface to shatter some long-held assumptions that will surprise even the most well-informed Scotophile. Did you know, for example, that the kilt was actually banned in Scotland at one point, and that particular tartans were never originally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780272014
• ISBN13: 9781780272016
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.9" x 9.4"